to such splendid weather before the traffic
crashed back over us again in torrents
and I lost you in the slanting rearview mirror.’’ From “A Break in the Weather,’’ by Paul Mariani (born 1940), an American poet and professor emeritus of literature at Boston College
“It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.’’
Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U.S. Supreme Court justice and solicitor general and perhaps best known as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, which served as a coda to a long stretch of Fascist brutality. Now we face less coherent but violent actions from American Neo-Fascists led by Trump.
Sacking the Capitol proves free speech is in trouble Joe Ferullo, opinion contributor
The First Amendment is in tatters.
It lies strewn on the floor of the Capitol, mixed in with the debris left behind by rioters who invaded Congress last week. It is there with the garbage dumped in the Speaker s office, with trash and shattered glass outside the Senate chamber.
Free speech is now in trouble because the rabble attacking the Capitol was driven by a mass delusion - and no mass delusion can take hold without mass media to give it life and sustain it.
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as The Bill of Rights. But history and experience have shown that they should really be called The Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.
Trumpâs Twitter ban is a step toward ending the hijacking of the First Amendment
Tech companies and other digital advocates typically resist regulation by saying theyâre standing up for freedom of speech. But theyâve been pushing a warped version of the idea.
By David GolumbiaUpdated January 9, 2021, 1:05 p.m.
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If thereâs one thing tech companies, provocateurs on the far right, and civil libertarians across the political spectrum all tend to say, itâs that they stand up for âfreedom of speech.â
Often this claim is offered up, ironically enough, as a conversation stopper: How could you be against freedom of speech? But itâs worth asking what these groups are actually after, because freedom of speech is not an end in itself.
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Pete Meenen and the Tennesseans We Lost to COVID-19
The state’s first resident claimed by a virus that went on to kill many more
On March 21, the Brentwood Family YMCA shared the news that Pete Meenen, a greeter at the gym and community center for more than 20 years, had died. He was the first person in Tennessee to die from COVID-19.
“Perhaps few faces in a YMCA are as recognizable as the greeter who meets the morning faithful, the early risers who start their day with us when the Welcome Center is a little quieter than usual,” the Brentwood Y’s operations executive, Roger D. Grove, wrote on Facebook. “For more than 20 years, Pete was that face in our YMCA, and his loss will be deeply felt by all of us, our staff and our members.”
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